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SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues | Keynote Address "Impossible Histories" | Ada Ferrer
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: \n\nA  Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada Ferrer\, “Impossible Histories: Understanding Failure and Absence in Atlantic Havana\, 1812”. Friday May\, 27th\, 1-3 pm\, in HSSB 1174  (free and open to the public\, no registration required).\nA Conversation with the author for graduate and undergraduate students following the keynote lecture reception\, on Friday May 27th\, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm. To attend\, please register using this form http://tinyurl.com/ucsbhistoryadaferrer\n\nFocal Point Dialogues in History was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness\, in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd\, and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing\, to begin with\, and it requires leaving the “zone of comfort”  of our specializations\, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other\, and from this year’s guest\, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21\, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014)\, The book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account) \nAda Ferrer is a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU\, and the author of several major award-winning books\, including Cuba\, an American History (2021) winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  Her book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University\, and several major American Historical Association awards\, among them: the James Rawley Prize for the best book on Atlantic History\, the Wesley Logan Prize for the best book in the History of the African Diaspora\, the Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book on Latin American History\, as well as the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Haitian Studies Association\, among others. Her first book\, Insurgent Cuba\, Race\, Nation\, and Revolution (1999)\, was the recipient of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history. Her research has been funded by major grants\, including the SSRC\, the NEH\, the Guggenheim\, the Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship\, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.   \n**Use of masks will be required to enter the classrooms. For questions write to Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-spring-2022-keynote-address-ada-ferrer/
LOCATION:HSSB 1174\, 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: "Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture\, “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic\,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. \nHerman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. A scholar of Latin American history and the African Diaspora\, Prof. Bennett’s previous books include Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism\, Christianity\, and Afro-Creole Consciousness (2003)\, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)\, and the forthcoming The African Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction. His notable essays include “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic\,” in African Studies Review (2000) and “Writing into a Void: Slavery\, History\, and Representing Blackness in Latin America” in Social Text (2007). He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The American Historical Association recognized his mentorship of racially and ethnically underrepresented students in the historical discipline through the AHA Equity Award in 2012. Prof. Bennett has served on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review\, Social Text\, The Americas\, the Blacks in the Diaspora series at Indiana University Press\, and the American Historical Review. \nProf. Bennett’s most recent book\, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) invites our attention to politics of sovereignty\, enslavement\, and power in the earliest Iberian and African interactions as a point of inquiry to critically rethink the ways in which liberalism has subsequently shaped analyses of culture\, economy\, and history. \nThe inaugural FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series is inspired by the UCSB History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it. Following three webinars led by History Department faculty and graduate students on topics like sovereignty\, the political\, liberation\, racial capitalism\, liberalism\, and empire\, from their own scholarly angles of vision\, the keynote lecture brings the series to a close and invites more conversations to be continued in the future. \nThe keynote lecture will use the Zoom webinar format. Prior registration is required. \nDate: Friday 21 May\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nKeynote Lecture: “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic” \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below: \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RbHCtjyoS8S-l6vbTiFEzw
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-keynote-lecture-with-prof-herman-bennett-body-soul-subject-a-history-of-difference-in-the-early-modern-african-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The final webinar will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like racial capitalism and liberalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur final webinar will transition into a Zoom meeting room format. Registration for the Zoom meeting is required. Please click on the link below to register\, after which you will receive a passcode and meeting link. You will need the passcode to enter the meeting. \nDate: April 16\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-yvrj4iE9O-rnuoC1Vo4oW2d61R6HzW \nFeaturing presentations by Alice O’Connor\, Manuel Covo\, Mattie Webb\, and Sherene Seikaly \nComment by Mhoze Chikowero \n\nAlice O’Connor is a historian of poverty\, capitalism\, inequality\, social science\, and public policy in the U.S. and the author of Poverty Knowledge (2001) and Social Science for What? (2007). \nManuel Covo is a historian of French imperialism\, the Atlantic World\, and the Haitian Revolution and the author of the forthcoming The Entrepot of Atlantic Revolutions. \nMattie Webb is a historian of U.S. foreign policy\, African History\, and comparative race and ethnicity. Mattie’s archival and oral-historical research combines social and diplomatic history to study the impact and awareness of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa during the apartheid era.  \nSherene Seikaly is a historian of political economy\, capitalism\, development\, race\, and dispossession in the modern Middle East and the author of Men of Capital (2016) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (2021). \nMhoze Chikowero is a historian of music\, colonialism\, technology\, and urban space in Zimbabwe and southern Africa and the author of African Music\, Power\, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (2015).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-iii-racial-capitalism-and-liberalism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur second webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on empire and colonialism in understanding Atlantic history and the politics of liberation from a wide diversity of scholarly standpoints. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: Mar 12\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar II: Empire and Liberation \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kI2R6miRRO2blZUh_62shQ \nFeaturing presentations by Anthony Greco\, Katie Moore\, Stephan Miescher\, and Ya Zuo \nComment by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault \n\nAnthony Greco is a historian of engineering and technology\, colonialism\, and science in the modern Middle East. His dissertation research examines Egypt’s long tradition of scientific knowledge and pedagogy. Before this\, he worked as a diesel mechanic\, plumber\, and carpenter which inspired his interest in builders and maintainers of public works. \nKatie Moore is a historian of early American political economy\, money\, debt\, and the Atlantic World\, and the author of the forthcoming A Revolutionary Currency. \nStephan Miescher is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana\, masculinities\, and environmental history\, and the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and coeditor of Gender\, Imperialism\, and Global Exchanges (2015). \nYa Zuo is a historian of middle and late imperial China\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and emotions\, and the author of Shen Gua’s Empiricism (2018). \nEvelyne Laurent-Perrault is a historian of the African diaspora in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean\, the political imagination of enslaved women\, and the author of the forthcoming Claims of Dignity. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-ii-empire-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar I: Sovereignty and the Political
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the inaugural session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur inaugural webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on sovereignty and the importance of the political in understanding the history of race in the world. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: 19th February 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM \nWebinar I: Sovereignty and the Political \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below.\nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31FRU_q0QYiZ46ABcHCvkw \nFeaturing presentations by Juan Cobo Betancourt\, Elizabeth Digeser\, Adam Sabra and Sergey Saluschev.  \nComment by Hilary Bernstein. \n\n  \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is a historian of race\, language\, religion\, and law in colonial Latin America\, co-founder of Neogranadina\, and the author of Mestizos Heraldos de Dios (2012). \nElizabeth Digeser is a historian of religion\, philosophy\, Roman politics\, and conversion in Late Antiquity\, and the author of A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists\, and the Great Persecution (2012). \nAdam Sabra is a historian of poverty\, charity\, aristocracy\, and Islam in medieval and early modern Egypt\, and the author of Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt 1250-1517 (2000). \nSergey Salushchev is a historian of slavery and abolition in the nineteenth century Caucasus under Russian imperialism. His dissertation analyzes the region as a permanent borderland\, a site of cultural exchanges\, translational commercial networks\, contested memory\, and imperial rivalries. \nHilary Bernstein is a historian of urban culture and history in early modern France\, and the author of Historical Communities: Cities\, Erudition\, and National Identity in Early Modern France (2020).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-i-sovereignty-and-the-political/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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